Sick a memoir by porochista khakpour literary


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Sick a memoir by porochista khakpour literary

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    • A Review of Porochista Khakpour’s Sick

    Porochista Khakpour spoke on the first panel I attended at the 2018 Association of Writers and Writing Program’s Annual Conference. The panel titled, “The Body’s Story: On Writing Narratives of Illness,” also included Sandra Beasley (moderator), Sonya Huber, Suleika Jaouad, and Esmé Weijun Wang.

    This was my first AWP after a Lyme disease diagnosis, traveling now with multiple medications and peripheral neuropathy. But I was eager to learn from Khakpour and her fellow panelists.

    Sick a memoir by porochista khakpour literary analysis

    So, I showed up at 8:50 a.m. and chose a seat that would allow me to stretch my arthritic knee.

    To a packed room, Khakpour described traveling with physical challenges, impetus for her memoirSick, chronicling her life with late-stage Lyme disease.

    “I couldn’t find myself in the narrative,” Khakpour said.

    The myths of Lyme disease are many, the most insidious being that Lyme patients are white, East Coast, outdoorsy, wealthy, and also (of course) making it all